Asymptotic L^4 norm of polynomials derived from characters

DOI10.2140/PJM.2013.263.373MaRDI QIDQ2393598zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel J. Katz

Publication date 8 August 2013

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1069

zbMATH Keywords

character sum\(L^4\) normFekete polynomialLittlewood polynomialcharacter polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in number theory (11C08) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Trigonometric polynomials, inequalities, extremal problems (42A05) Other character sums and Gauss sums (11T24)

Abstract: Littlewood investigated polynomials with coefficients in $-1,1$ (Littlewood polynomials), to see how small their ratio of norms $||f|{|}_4/||f|{|}_2$ on the unit circle can become as $deg(f)oinfty$. A small limit is equivalent to slow growth in the mean square autocorrelation of the associated binary sequences of coefficients of the polynomials. The autocorrelation problem for arrays and higher dimensional objects has also been studied; it is the natural generalization to multivariable polynomials. Here we find, for each $n>1$, a family of $n$-variable Littlewood polynomials with lower asymptotic $||f|{|}_4/||f|{|}_2$ than any known hitherto. We discover these through a wide survey, infeasible with previous methods, of polynomials whose coefficients come from finite field characters. This is the first time that the lowest known asymptotic ratio of norms $||f|{|}_4/||f|{|}_2$ for multivariable polynomials $f(z_1,\mathrm{...},z_n)$ is strictly less than what could be obtained by using products $f_1(z_1)\mathrm{...}{f}_n(z_n)$ of the best known univariate polynomials.

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